Comments for Notes (beta) http://notes.ericjiang.com Eric Jiang Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:34:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on iOS keycodes in Javascript by Christian http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/333#comment-1317 Christian Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:34:57 +0000 http://notes.ericjiang.com/?p=333#comment-1317 Hi Bruce, Eric, do you have a solution to your paste problem? I have got the same problem, since I have to restrict a textarea by the number of lines dynamically via event handling in Javaascript. This works on all browsers, since I am listening on keyup event. But unfortunately this does not work on the iPhone/iPad. The only "solution" that came to my mind was to implement a dirty "setTimeout" listener that checks for changes of the contents every few milliseconds. But this is really dirty ... Hi Bruce, Eric, do you have a solution to your paste problem? I have got the same problem, since I have to restrict a textarea by the number of lines dynamically via event handling in Javaascript. This works on all browsers, since I am listening on keyup event. But unfortunately this does not work on the iPhone/iPad.
The only “solution” that came to my mind was to implement a dirty “setTimeout” listener that checks for changes of the contents every few milliseconds. But this is really dirty …

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]]> Comment on WordPress permissions on NearlyFreeSpeech.net by Jim http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/322#comment-1286 Jim Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:58:35 +0000 http://notes.ericjiang.com/?p=322#comment-1286 This is very comprehensive and useful! Thanks:) This is very comprehensive and useful! Thanks:)

]]> Comment on Don’t buy from Musicnotes.com by dt http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/49#comment-1259 dt Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:54:40 +0000 http://blog.aztekera.com/?p=49#comment-1259 I have Acrobat Pro installed on my Mac. The print dialog's "Print to PDF" worked fine for me. Perhaps MusicNotes has relented on multiple copies. FWIW, my music was legible and usable. I auditioned with it and got the part. I have Acrobat Pro installed on my Mac. The print dialog’s “Print to PDF” worked fine for me. Perhaps MusicNotes has relented on multiple copies. FWIW, my music was legible and usable. I auditioned with it and got the part.

]]> Comment on Arrow Endianness: How GNOME got sorting backwards by Guy http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/456#comment-1192 Guy Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:58:30 +0000 http://notes.ericjiang.com/?p=456#comment-1192 That's great trmsw until you get to a language where Z isn't the last letter. I'm joshing of course, but interesting that what started as a binary choice has extended to many solutions. And that's how standards proliferate (see recent xkcd) That’s great trmsw until you get to a language where Z isn’t the last letter.

I’m joshing of course, but interesting that what started as a binary choice has extended to many solutions.

And that’s how standards proliferate (see recent xkcd)

]]> Comment on Arrow Endianness: How GNOME got sorting backwards by Harald Korneliussen http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/456#comment-1180 Harald Korneliussen Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:34:50 +0000 http://notes.ericjiang.com/?p=456#comment-1180 "There’s no reason why the left side is better than the right side." If there is a menu bar attached, as there is in your screenshot, it is a problem. The problem is that you may easily accidentally close the program when you tried to click the file menu. I don't have a mac, but I believe this isn't an issue there due to the menu bars being on top rather than attached to windows. “There’s no reason why the left side is better than the right side.”

If there is a menu bar attached, as there is in your screenshot, it is a problem. The problem is that you may easily accidentally close the program when you tried to click the file menu.

I don’t have a mac, but I believe this isn’t an issue there due to the menu bars being on top rather than attached to windows.

]]> Comment on Arrow Endianness: How GNOME got sorting backwards by trmsw http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/456#comment-1179 trmsw Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:00:27 +0000 http://notes.ericjiang.com/?p=456#comment-1179 I like the Webi icons, an A above a Z next to an arrow pointing downwards, and a Z above an A next to an arrow still pointing downwards. Visually not that appealing but easy to understand since they don't try to use a single symbol to indicate two separate bits of information (one is whether the table is sorted by this column at all, the other is the sort order). I like the Webi icons, an A above a Z next to an arrow pointing downwards, and a Z above an A next to an arrow still pointing downwards. Visually not that appealing but easy to understand since they don’t try to use a single symbol to indicate two separate bits of information (one is whether the table is sorted by this column at all, the other is the sort order).

]]> Comment on Arrow Endianness: How GNOME got sorting backwards by Steven http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/456#comment-1178 Steven Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:26:17 +0000 http://notes.ericjiang.com/?p=456#comment-1178 The universal symbols for forward and reverse are ⏩ and ⏪. There's no ambiguity of how the arrow direction relates to the "direction of increase", or the triangle being bigger on one end or the other symbolizing anything. If you want to draw on that meaning, go with the symbols that actually mean that. The universal symbols for forward and reverse are ⏩ and ⏪. There’s no ambiguity of how the arrow direction relates to the “direction of increase”, or the triangle being bigger on one end or the other symbolizing anything. If you want to draw on that meaning, go with the symbols that actually mean that.

]]> Comment on Arrow Endianness: How GNOME got sorting backwards by pat http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/456#comment-1177 pat Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:45:44 +0000 http://notes.ericjiang.com/?p=456#comment-1177 "Just look at all the people who complain about the nerve of Steve Jobs to place the close-window button on the left. There’s no reason why the left side is better than the right side." On Mac OS versions 1 through 9, there kind of was. The close button was on the far left, and the "safe" buttons (zoom, and later windowshade). Once you got used to it, it was much faster to click the "safe" buttons because you knew there was no chance of hitting the (not easily reversible) close button. Of course, by the time OS X Developer Preview 3 came around, they'd forgotten about all that, and decided to put them all on the same side of the window so the right side could be used for "single window mode", an idea so astonishingly bad they dropped it for the Public Beta, leaving the right half of the titlebar completely empty, until 10.0 when a toolbar toggle was added there. “Just look at all the people who complain about the nerve of Steve Jobs to place the close-window button on the left. There’s no reason why the left side is better than the right side.”

On Mac OS versions 1 through 9, there kind of was. The close button was on the far left, and the “safe” buttons (zoom, and later windowshade). Once you got used to it, it was much faster to click the “safe” buttons because you knew there was no chance of hitting the (not easily reversible) close button.

Of course, by the time OS X Developer Preview 3 came around, they’d forgotten about all that, and decided to put them all on the same side of the window so the right side could be used for “single window mode”, an idea so astonishingly bad they dropped it for the Public Beta, leaving the right half of the titlebar completely empty, until 10.0 when a toolbar toggle was added there.

]]> Comment on Arrow Endianness: How GNOME got sorting backwards by trmsw http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/456#comment-1176 trmsw Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:15:02 +0000 http://notes.ericjiang.com/?p=456#comment-1176 It's the death of idealism if you ask me. Show someone the two triangles / arrows, and ask them which one means inverted. Almost everyone will reply ▽: you can be confident that the removals man will understand △ on a cardboard box (understand, maybe not follow...) So talk about things being in order or reverse order, and everyone understands: the normal order starts with the first and the reverse order starts with the last. The only room for confusion is how to rank items: eg, how to rank musical notes (is it A -> G or C -> B), or colours (as opposed to the name of colours)? Talk about "sorting by", and suddenly everyone is thinking in terms of arrows and direction, process and going places, taking lifs and counting down. It's sad because supposedly we had computers to do boring things like sorting, now everyone is thinking like a programmer, and what's worse, a procedural programmer. It’s the death of idealism if you ask me.

Show someone the two triangles / arrows, and ask them which one means inverted. Almost everyone will reply ▽: you can be confident that the removals man will understand △ on a cardboard box (understand, maybe not follow…)

So talk about things being in order or reverse order, and everyone understands: the normal order starts with the first and the reverse order starts with the last. The only room for confusion is how to rank items: eg, how to rank musical notes (is it A -> G or C -> B), or colours (as opposed to the name of colours)?

Talk about “sorting by”, and suddenly everyone is thinking in terms of arrows and direction, process and going places, taking lifs and counting down. It’s sad because supposedly we had computers to do boring things like sorting, now everyone is thinking like a programmer, and what’s worse, a procedural programmer.

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